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Eh, I'm not sure that I want to have a bonus list this year. I'd like to actually finish the licensed list this time, plus there's a ton of bonus points already from the pain points.

Pace is looking good so far at 300: 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 50 02-Jan 01-Jan 01-Jan 01-Jan 01-Jan 01-Jan 01-Jan 01-Jan 01-Jan 01-Jan 01-Jan 01-Jan 01-Jan 100 04-Jan 01-Jan 01-Jan 01-Jan 01-Jan 01-Jan 01-Jan 02-Jan 03-Jan 02-Jan 04-Jan 02-Jan 02-Jan 150 09-Jan 01-Jan 01-Jan 02-Jan 02-Jan 01-Jan 02-Jan 05-Jan 05-Jan 02-Jan 08-Jan 03-Jan 03-Jan 200 16-Jan 03-Jan 03-Jan 03-Jan 03-Jan 02-Jan 04-Jan 10-Jan 08-Jan 04-Jan 10-Jan 05-Jan 05-Jan 250 29-Jan 07-Jan 06-Jan 04-Jan 05-Jan 04-Jan 06-Jan 22-Jan 11-Jan 06-Jan 15-Jan 10-Jan 07-Jan 300 06-Feb 14-Jan 11-Jan 06-Jan 08-Jan 10-Jan 09-Jan 14-Feb 17-Jan 08-Jan 22-Jan 22-Jan 12-Jan 350 17-Mar 25-Jan 17-Jan 10-Jan 12-Jan 16-Jan 15-Jan 19-Mar 22-Jan 11-Jan 27-Jan 28-Jan 400 26-Apr 17-Feb 26-Jan 16-Jan 19-Jan 27-Jan 30-Jan 14-Apr 30-Jan 15-Jan 08-Feb 06-Feb 450 07-Jun 02-May 16-Feb 21-Jan 31-Jan 07-Feb 10-Mar 19-May 14-Feb 19-Jan 05-Mar 20-Feb 500 22-Jul 10-Jul 09-Mar 31-Jan 21-Feb 10-Apr 11-Jul 20-Jul 01-Mar 29-Jan 15-Apr 09-Mar 550 16-Aug 08-Nov 07-Jun 10-Feb 21-Apr 02-Sep 13-Nov 21-Oct 31-Mar 07-Feb 23-Oct 27-Jun 600 14-Oct xxx 13-Sep 24-Feb 29-May xxx xxx xxx 21-Apr 13-Mar xxx 27-Dec 650 30-Nov xxx xxx 08-Apr 26-Aug xxx xxx xxx 20-Jun 25-Oct xxx xxx 677 31-Dec xxx xxx 12-Jun 13-Dec xxx xxx xxx 25-Dec xxx xxx xxx Total 677 562 638 677 677 589 582 587 677 665 564 600 ...

This week's result: Question #25 (12/28-1/10) - When it comes to dragons, what game comes to mind? 1 Dragon Quest 29.0 2 Dragon Buster 9.6 3 Dragon Quest III 8.2 4 Double Dragon 7.9 5 Suishou no Dragon 6.6 6 Dragon Power 5.4 7 Ninja Gaiden 3.4 8 Dragon Spirit 2.8 9 Flying Dragon 2.1 10 Fire Emblem 2.1 11 Hiryuu no Ken II 2.0 12 Legacy of the Wizard 2.0 13 Dragon Quest II 1.7 14 Sansara Naga 1.6 15 Dragon Quest IV 1.4 16 Double Dragon II 1.1 17 Dragon Scroll 1.0 18 Dragon's Lair 1.0 19 Metal Max 0.7 20 Hiryuu no Ken III 0.6 Of course Dragon Quest won. I am a bit surprised to see Dragon Buster so high. If the title doesn't make sense, a lot of these games have dragon related names in Japanese. Like Hiryuu means "Flying Dragon" (aka Hiryuu 1). Flying Warriors is apparently a combo of both Hiryuu 2 & 3, so I just left those Japanese names in there. Sansara Naga is an rpg game bout raising dragons. Metal Max has absolutely no dragons in its title, but the game's advertising slogan was "I'm tired of slaying dragons." Next week's question: When it comes to Japanese-style, what game comes to mind? This is an interesting one. Maybe something like Goemon?

Rollerblade Racer!!!

I've reached Robocop 3's beautiful ending screen once more:

1942 completed. Shooting down: 8602 PCT - 86% Score - 1,357,650

Qix high score knocked off:

Talespin completed. Pretty sloppy with a game over, but oh well.

In Waiters, you can actually just sit there without attacking and dodge all of the enemy pies - they'll run out after a while. Then you can take your time trying to nail them.

I was going to say that I forgot to post a few days ago, but it turns out that question 25's voting period is actually two weeks because of the holiday. So we have a few more days to wait for that.

Throwing some stats out there: There were 4 games that went unbeaten last year that had previously been beaten in every year from 2012-22. They were: Ikari Warriors II, Jordan vs Bird, Tecmo World Wrestling, and Volleyball. TheGameDisplay (5th), McBryce (8th), mbd39 (9th), and Jandrem (10th) all finished in the top ten for the first time in 2023. There are only two games which have changed point values every single year: Bram Stoker's Dracula (6-7-5-6-5-6-7-9-8-9-8) Die Hard (6-5-4-3-2-1-2-3-5-7) There are still 33 games which have had the same point value every year: 23 one point games Amagon, Chessmaster, Contra, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, Double Dragon II, Duck Tales, Fisher Price I Can Remember, Galaga, Ice Hockey, Kung Fu, Mega Man, Mega Man 2, Monopoly, Ninja Gaiden, Pac-Man, Popeye, Remote Control, Super C, Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 2, Super Mario Bros 3, Tetris 2 two point games Duck Tales II, TMNT II 8 ten point games Destination Earth Star, Dungeon Magic, F-117A Stealth Fighter, Flight of the Intruder, Hunt for Red October, Might & Magic, Roger Clemens MVP Baseball, Ultimate Air Combat ...

As someone who has beaten this game many times, I disagree. The best stage to play is Waiters. It's very safe, and it awards more money the further you get into the calendar. Doctors is my second pick, although it can be easy to mess up. You just have to stay behind the gurney.

Gegege no Kitarou (Ninja Kid) looped:

One game of Cyberball won, 14-13.

Soccer done, Brazil 5:0 over the easiest cpu opponent.

Tiger-Heli looped after 15 minutes.

Golf, barely under the +28 threshold:

Twin Eagle defeated. It was a no-death run (after a few restarts of course).

I always thought Uninvited was worse than shadowgate and Deja Vu. It just seemed a little wackier and less logical.

Congrats! I was gonna say, it should technically be fine for the competition to beat it the cheap way, but I'm glad you did it the other way too.

Cybernoid - clutched it out on the last life.

John Elway's Quarterback

Spelunker is completed! Easy clear. Previously:

That would be very interesting to take a look at. I'd have to do a bit of work figuring it out... But, I do have a list of how many games we've beaten all together on New Years each year (licensed only, includes first 15). New Years Day Completions 2012 26 2013 164 2014 158 2015 131 2016 132 2017 167 2018 122 2019 73 2020 68 2021 94 2022 65 2023 85 2024 97 ...

Phantom Fighter completed. Took a little less than 3 hours. Even knowing the game, some of the boss fights are kind of cheap (maybe if I had more upgrades, they'd be easier - but that would be longer).